Power BI Weekly Newsletter Issue #226

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Data Prep

Covering: Power Query (M), Dataflows, Data connectors, AI Insights

• Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) explains how to Keep Your Existing Power BI Data And Add New Data To It Using Fabric
• On the Perficient blog, Dhananjay Gokhale (@Perficient) describes Power BI & Excel Connectivity: Scenarios Which Can Break Dashboard
• Reid Havens (@HavensBI) talks about the Pareto Principle for Power BI: Few Tricks, Big Wins (with Denis Selimovic)
• Rick de Groot (@Rickmaurinus) describes Understanding Recursion in Power Query: Tower Of Hanoi and writes about Wildcards in Power Query M

Data Modeling

Covering: DAX (Measures & Calculated Tables/Columns), Relationships, Analysis Services, Composite models

• On the SQLBI blog, Alberto Ferrari (@FerrariAlberto) discusses Finding products without sales by using DAX
• Miguel Félix covers Qual o registo seguinte? [Portuguese]
• Chandeep Chhabra (@chandeep2786) describes How to Fix Incorrect Totals in Power BI
• On the phData blog, Dave Rogers (@phdatainc) describes How to Create a Dynamic Date Axis in Power BI

Report Authoring and Interactivity

Covering: Layout and formatting, Visualizations, Interactivity, Themes, Mobile reports, Dashboards

• Bas Dohmen (@HowToPowerBI) discusses The art of subtle animation in Power BI
• Fowmy Abdulmuttalib (@ExcelFort) describes One Chart – Two Insights: Power BI Line Chart Trick with Error Bars
• Erik Svensen (@donsvensen) describes how to Power BI – Set a background to a URL image without a theme file
• Daniel Marsh-Patrick (@the_d_mp) announces Deneb 1.6 Ready for Beta Testing

Deployment, Security and Operations

Covering: Workspaces and Apps, Template Apps, Deployment Pipelines, Gateways, Security, Sharing, Licences, Admin operations, Developer Tooling

• On the Power BI blog, Nikki Waghani (@NikkiWaghani) announces On-premises data gateway September 2023 release
• Ted Pattison (@TedPattison) presents Power BI Dev Camp Session 35 - Power BI Embedding Best Practices with the Power BI JavaScript API
• Tom Martens (@tommartens68) writes A song to the unnoticed heroes of every successful Power BI solution - the on-premises data gateway, the vnet gateway, and the sharable cloud connection

General

Covering: Cross-topic announcements & feature summaries, Whitepapers, Community events, Learning Resources & Certifications, Podcasts, Sample reports, End-to-end walkthroughs

• The Knee-Deep in Tech team (@KneeDeepinTech) present Podcast episode 237

Useful Links

• Power BI Maturity Scorecard - 97% of the Fortune 500 are using Power BI. Only 20% of analytics deliver business value. How do you score?
• Azure Weekly - Interested in Azure? Sign up to our sister newsletter Azure Weekly to receive all the week's Azure news
• M language reference - Official Power Query M Reference
• DAX Studio - Useful open source tool for executing and analyzing DAX queries, founded by Darren Gosbell
• DAX Guide - Your go-to reference on the DAX language, created by the SQLBI team
• Power BI Visuals Reference - An exhaustive list (as of Sep. 2018) of all Power BI native & custom visuals, placed into separate categories, again created by the SQLBI team
• Report Theme Generator - A handy report theme generator created by the Power BI Tips and Tricks team
• Power BI Theme templates - Detailed Power BI Theme templates for all the native visuals, created by David Eldersveld
• Power BI from Rookie to Rock Star - Free, detailed eBook to get up and running with Power BI, written by Reza Rad
• Power BI Architecture diagram - An informative Power BI Architecture diagram, created by Dustin Ryan
• Power BI Whitepapers - A list of official Power BI whitepapers, covering Security, Premium deployment, Advanced Analytics and more